Object

• height: He is also a keen adventurer planning to scale the dizzy heights of Mount Everest in 2007.

Converse of object

• slide: Fees are charged on a sliding scale, ranging from £ 15 upward per session.

• underestimate: Still, we should not underestimate the scale of what could be achieved.

Converse of subject

• overwhelm: Most initiatives to protect and enhance the countryside are overwhelmed by the scale of the present threats.

Noun used with modifier

• rating: Investigations of the interval nature of the rating scales have generally been carried out using the graphic scaling method.

Adjective modifier

• grand: In the grand, cosmic scale of things, I was merely a blip, hardly worth bothering about.

• sheer: Its sheer scale must be seen to be believed.

• large: Perhaps on an even larger scale we have seen the stalling of many Islamic states.

• global: But why monitor the environment at the global scale?

• small: The economy is small scale compared to the celestial battles fought in the theater of God's wars.

Modifies a noun

• replica: Featuring the largest film set ever built in Ireland, KING ARTHUR features a scale replica of Hadrian's Wall and two complete villages.

• drawing: Aviation Heritage Offers aviation books, scale drawings and CD-roms for aviation researchers and modelers.

Noun used with modifier

• analog: Part 2 is a visual analog scale - 0 being worst imaginable and 100 being best imaginable health status.

• epic: But despite such a rich canvas of intertextuality, this novel stubbornly refuses to be anything but an old-fashioned yarn on an epic scale.

• four-point: CHI uses a four-point scale, from i to iv.

• large-: This was a large- scale event extending over a number of Kellogg's brands appealing to families.

Preposition: of

• stipend: An Administrative Officer who has reached the maximum of the scale of stipends may be reappointed to the retiring age.